Maria Laurino

The new PBS series "The Italian Americans" chronicles the values of the group, from the waves of immigrants who arrived in the late 19th century to those who live here today.

Maria Laurino, former speechwriter for Mayor Dinkins and the author of Old World Daughter, New World Mother: An Education in Love and Freedom (W.W. Norton & Co, 2009), explores the changes in women's lives through her own story about old-world and new-world mothering styles in her Italian-American ...